Royalton-Hartland student Evan Kindron is a volunteer at the Middleport Fire Company and he is also a student in Eric Farrell’s Welding program at the Orleans Career and Technical Education Center. When the Welding teaching assistant John Gailie asked if anyone would volunteer to help out his fire company in Cambria with a project, he jumped at the chance.
The
Cambria Volunteer Fire Company recently purchased a pickup that they
wanted to convert from a residential vehicle to an emergency vehicle
and needed a back rack for it. “We
are going to use the vehicle for police and fire services when we need
to block off roads or let people know to slow down,” says Mr. Gailie. “The
back rack will allow us to put a light bar on the top so people in
front of us or behind us can see it and be aware that there is a
situation. We will also be hauling cones and generators and it will protect the window from being damaged.”
Evan designed the rack, using the Auto CAD program after getting the dimensions from measuring the truck. He cut out the pieces and welded together so it would be a customized fit for the vehicle. He
had students in Mike Schultz’s Diesel Mechanics program paint it and a
classmate designed the Cambria Fire Department sign that was attached.
“Our
department was so grateful to Evan for volunteering his time to do
this that our Fire Chief Shawn McIntyre invited him to the station and
made him an honorary member of the company,” says Mr. Gailie. “All
our members gave him a standing ovation for the awesome job he did and
were just so impressed that the class donated the materials for him to
make this rack for them. It saved the department hundreds of dollars.”
